shadowiness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shadowiness
Noun
  • Our mission to bolster the neighborhoods on the West, East and Midtown areas of our city persists even in the veil of vagueness that now surrounds the prison’s future.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • That vagueness cuts against a criminal prosecution.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Many technological challenges abound in the murkiness of natural language chatting.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • All of this speaks to overall murkiness around metrics in the fast-growing industry and the possibility that they might be manipulated.
    Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In reality, for decades Netanyahu has upheld Israel's policy of ambiguity.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Human creativity thrives in ambiguity and adaptive thinking.
    Sarat Chakravarthi, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • From beach books to profundity, long-form fiction opened minds and shrank the world.
    Doug McIntyre, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Much of Gilbert’s early work displays an awareness of both the profundity and the transience of romance, and of the many different universes that one life can open into or contain.
    Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This may be Riley’s attempt to portray the insularity and impenetrability of Ruth’s community, a faith so particular that even the reader is denied access to it.
    Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
  • For certain travelers, though, especially those who gravitate toward conflict zones and geopolitical oddities, Turkmenistan’s impenetrability has given it an alluring mystique.
    Joe Yogerst, CNN Money, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • Folklore portrays them as menacing figures lurking in the darkness who can possess those who wander too far from home.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Aesthetically and emotionally, Swag II is dawn chasing darkness away.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Shadowiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shadowiness. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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